26th June 2013
How does it feel to have a new novel published, when you’ve published plenty of books before?” An interesting question, I think. Of course, the appearance of one’s very first novel is a unique a...
24th June 2013
Anya Lipska, author of Where the Devil Can’t Go, a crime thriller set among London’s Poles, chooses her top five true crime reads. 1. Shot in the Heart– Mikal Gilmore, 1994 In 1977, Gary Gilmore’s dem...
22nd June 2013
Pondering the sixty-year anniversary of the Crime Writers’ Association, Jane finds herself wondering: what was I doing in 1953? I’d like to say I don’t recall 1953, it was before my time. But I’d be l...
18th June 2013
From as far back as we can trace, people have felt the need to share stories. Wasn’t early cave man a forerunner of the fisherman boasting about ‘the one that got away’? Imagine a pr...
17th June 2013
Chris Collett was born in East Anglia and writes a series of police procedural crime novels based in Birmingham, England featuring Detective Inspector Tom Mariner. As a special needs teacher Chris...
15th June 2013
Not only are we in the midst of National Crime Writing Month but we are already half way through the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Anniversary year – yes we are 60! To honour our anniversary Satu...
13th June 2013
Geraldine D’Amico: I am delighted to launch the first ever travel festival at Kings Place. Located by the canal and a short walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras, this is the ideal venue to thin...
10th June 2013
Win two free tickets to CSI Portsmouth where crime fiction meets crime fact with best selling crime authors, police and forensic experts. Saturday 2 November 2013 CSI Portsmouth 2013 is already shapi...
9th June 2013
A month in the life of a busy writer Writers are always busy, and some months are busier than others, but May has been quite a challenge! I have spent most of the month preparing an outline for a new...
8th June 2013
Not only are we in the midst of National Crime Writing Month but we are already half way through the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Anniversary year – yes we are 60! To honour our anni...
6th June 2013
Now we can’t deny that we are more than a little bit excited about the first giveaway for National Crime Writing Month 2013. Those that pay attention to us will have noticed that I promised a bi...
28th May 2013
This weekend sees the movers and the shakers, the hip and the happening and everyone in between descending on Bristol for CRIMEFEST. Billed as “the convention for people who like to read an occa...
20th May 2013
National Crime Writing Month is Back! The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Director, Lucy Santos, explains why it would be criminal to miss the UK’s fourth annual celebration of crime writing old and...
8th May 2013
The CRA loves to give its readers tips on the best crime books, authors and events around. A fantastic event coming up on the 20th May definitely fulfills the criteria of being one of the best events...
4th May 2013
You may remember that early in April we offered a great giveaway prize of a, signed, Evonne Wareham novel to two lucky Crime Reader Association members. The giveaway finished at the end of April and w...
2nd May 2013
Nearly a hundred and twenty people attended the first ever CSI Gateshead event at Gateshead Library on Thursday 25 April. Inspired by the CSI Portsmouth event, which crime author, Pauline Rowson helps...
1st May 2013
Sponsor: Dead Good, The Random House Group The judging panel for this year’s Dagger in the Library Award are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2013 award. Mobeena Khan, who chairs the judges, s...
29th April 2013
Once a year members of the Crime Writers’ Association get together, drink, chat, drink, eat, drink, laugh, drink and learn at our annual conference. This year we were in Lake Windermere over the...
25th April 2013
Lie Still is a potent blast of twenty first century Southern Gothic. Julia Heaberlin brings a poet’s craft and conviction to her storytelling, and the characters which populate her fictional Texan tow...
18th April 2013
The Crime Writers’ Association and Crime Readers’ Association are currently gearing up to National Crime Writing Month, which will start at the end of May, and will see special crime event...